Collection of notebooks and information on various aspects of Earth system data processing.
This repository contains material that has been provided for and developed during the lecture on Earth System Data Processing at the University of Cologne in the winter semester 2025/26. The lecture covered topics such as finding and accessing data from modern web services, coordinate systems, remapping and interpolation, common file formats, types of Earth system data, numerical model grids, metadata standards, FAIR data.
The course uses an inverse classroom concept, where the actual lectures are recorded, while students discuss the lecture content and work on practical examples during the course hours. The material in this repository forms the basis for the practical exercises. Students will also be assigned coding tasks as homework and the results shall be included here to establish a collection of useful routines for other students and scientists who wish to learn the basics of Earth system data processing.
Note: Due to the background of the lecturer, the focus of this material is on atmospheric data. Nevertheless, many concepts and routines can also be applied to other Earth system data. Feel free to contribute material for other data types if you find this repository useful.
Author: Martin Schultz, Jülich Supercomputing Centre, Forschungszentrum Jülich & Department of Computer Science and Math, University of Cologne October 2025